Notwithstanding the provisions of section 17a-451e, the funds required by said section to be allocated to the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, for grants for mental health services, shall be deposited in a separate, nonlapsing mental health services grants account established within the General Fund. The account shall contain any other moneys required by law to be deposited in said account. The moneys in said account shall be expended by the Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services as follows:

1. (1) The sum of four hundred twenty-five thousand dollars for an inpatient behavioral health program serving preschool children aged two to five years;
2. (2) the sum of one hundred eighty-five thousand dollars for behavioral health preventive activities in the community;
3. (3) the sum of five hundred thirty thousand dollars for a study of the behavioral health aftereffects of service in Operation Iraqi Freedom or in other combat theaters on Connecticut soldiers and their families;
4. (4) the sum of eight hundred ten thousand dollars for transitional behavioral health benefits for soldiers and their families; and
5. (5) any remainder as determined by the Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services in accordance with section 17a-451.

(P.A. 04-258, S. 36; P.A. 05-2, S. 2.)

History: P.A. 04-258 effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 05-2 added Subdivs. (1) to (5), inclusive, specifying purposes for which moneys in account shall be expended and made technical changes, effective March 22, 2005.